The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-13
THE FIELD OF LUNDY's LANE.
The Scene of tho Greatest Land Battle Of tn.
War of 1912.

scene tno
War of 1912.
In a little typical English inn of the time of
Addison and Steele, we Sit down to a luncheon of
chops and ale, for which the modest sum Of 35
cents is charged. We in the Canadian viii
lage of Drummondville-named In honor of Gen
eral Drummond of the British army-and the
scene of the famous battle Of Lundys Lane.
The village consists of one main street lined
with shade-trees. Plain but substantial houses
face the road with neat little yards in front
Lundy Lane cuts the main street at right an
giles. On the corner lives the Squire of the vii
lage, a kinsman of James Russell Lowell, de-
scendant of the Boston Lowell, who emigrated
from Boston to Canada West early in the pres
ent century. Close at hand are the two rival
taverns elaring savasely upon one another from
opposite sides of the street. and displaying
jsunty their gray signs on swinging supports,
which also serve their shields and armor
bright
little hill scarcely more than an eight of a mile
rom the village. 1t was the aim of the Ameri-
cans to disodge the British from the position
they held in occupying this little rise OF ground
The Americans under Brown had set out from
Niagara Falls. but q mile away. with the inten-
ton of clearing the border line of the Kings
subjects. Here they met their first eHectual
resistance
TIE spot is now occupied by country grave
yard. with an old stone church close at hand.
Some of the erave-stones are interesting. Here
is a monument erected in memory of the British
officers who fell the battle field. simple
slab marks the burial place of one of the Cecils,
kinsman of the present Prime Minister Of Eng
land. and who, had he lived, would have been
British baronet. Here lies Captain Hall, an
American officer. On the opposite side OF the
road is a blacksmith shop. We enter and ask
the smith what he knows of the contest.
''The battle drawn one. The two
armies were almost equally matched in point of
numbers. Fighting began about o'clock the
afternoon of the oath of July, 1914 and was
continued by moonlight until about II, whom
see to fight no longer The British were left in
possession of the field, and when they awoke
the next morning they found that the Americans
had fallen back toward the river. As it was in
the middle of summer. and Very hot and sultry,
it was found that there was no time to bury the
dead So they were thrown together in piles.
and. with fence rails for kind1ng wood, the
dead were got quickly out of the way.
ut was intended at first to burn only the
Americans, but the Yanks were SO thin and
rawboned that a few fat Englishmen were
sides were burned When was boy we used
to find all about here musket-balls, sword hilts,
rusty pistols, etc, but now they have all gone.'
AS was going down the hill on my way back
to the Falls came across very gentlemanly
looking old man, who proved to be the Squire of
the village, Mr.. Lowell He very commu-
nicative and entered into long conversation.
just here where we are standing your
Miller made his series of great charges to take
In the first two charges he
unsuccessful. The third time rushing before
his with a great dash, he waved his sword
in the air over his head, and shouted, Now d-n
you, come along The guns of the British were
taken and spiked in whiriwind of dust and
smoke. but in the course OF the battle were
taken again by our side
.FYonder mill was taken and retaken six times
in the course of the fight. General Scott took q
prominent part in the battle, and few years
before he died visited Drummondville, and
heard, with good laugh, of having to
grease up the rawboned Yankees with fat En-
elishmen to make them burn the next day after
the battle. We hope before long to to erect a
monument this height, commemorating the
greatest land engagement of the war of 1872, the
battle of Lundy's Lane, or Niagara Falls"